By what age should my child be able to read?

By what age should my child be able to read?

Kids begin to read at all different ages. A lot of people tell you, I was reading at 2 1/2, I was reading at 3. You'll have parents that are distressed if a child isn't reading well by 5. Reading is very developmental. It requires reading readiness, it requires an interest, it also requires the kid to be willing to sit down and focus on something and do something for a while. So kids are going to start to read at different ages. If you've been reading to your kid ever since he or she was a little tiny baby, they are going to start filling in words, memorizing books, by the time they are 2 1/2, 3 years old. It doesn't necessarily mean they are reading, but they have a good sense of how to read and how it works, and they are kind of interested and want to read. At the same time if your child doesn't read by the time they are 6 or 7, doesn't read well, it's often really hard to learn fluency after 6 or 7. So there's that range between 4 and 6 where most kids will begin to read.